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Message-ID: <20190201164309.GA26827@telecom.csail.mit.edu>
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2019 11:43:09 -0500
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
Subject: Weekend temps to reach 40s as polar vortex dies down, low
temperature records set
By Jonathon Sadowski
RACINE COUNTY - The polar vortex is mercifully subsiding after
a grueling stretch that saw over a foot of snow and record-low
temperatures batter the area.
Service outages
Some local AT&T and Spectrum customers experienced outages Wednesday
and Thursday. Neither company shared how many customers were affected
or for how long when asked.
https://journaltimes.com/news/local/weekend-temps-to-reach-s-as-polar-vortex-dies-down/article_a60a39e8-2675-5f96-a877-0deec2d67aa2.html
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Bill Horne
(Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly)
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Message-ID: <335c40cb-cabe-42f9-a9bd-cc8c7434a1d1@googlegroups.com>
Date: 1 Feb 2019 12:39:57 -0800
From: HAncock4 <withheld@invalid.telecom-digest.org>
Subject: Re: Tonga utility striving to lift capacity after undersea
cable cut
On Monday, January 28, 2019 at 12:27:37 PM UTC-5, bernieS wrote:
> The Tonga Cable, a subsea cable providing the kingdom's broadband
> connection, broke down on Sunday evening resulting in an outage that
> took out all the kingdom's domestic and international cell phone and
> internet coverage.
Some historical background on undersea cables. The technology
is different, but some of the basics remain. Indeed, it is amazing
what they could do sixty years ago.
1957 WUTR--Fault Location in Submarine Telegraph Cables
http://massis.lcs.mit.edu/telecom-archives/archives/technical/western-union-tech-review/11-3/p086.htm
1963 undersea cable repair
https://books.google.com/books?id=_O4XJrtre4AC&lpg=PA4&dq=boys%20life%20%20july%20%201963&pg=PA5#v=onepage&q=boys%20life%20%20july%20%201963&f=false
1964 cable ship Long Lines
https://books.google.com/books?id=HEFsdunJeZMC&lpg=PA1&dq=boys%20life%20%20march%201964&pg=PA5#v=onepage&q&f=false
1965 US Japan undersea cable:
https://books.google.com/books?id=MixUVHHhs88C&lpg=PA12&dq=%22boys%20life%22%20bell%20telephone%20sea%20legs&pg=PA12#v=onepage&q&f=false
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Message-ID: <7895f7e1-c81f-4f0e-8a66-922468b2c3d2@googlegroups.com>
Date: 2 Feb 2019 11:10:01 -0800
From: HAncock4 <withheld@invalid.telecom-digest.org>
Subject: Re: Extreme Cold Freezes Out Internet, Phones in Madison
County, Ind.
On Friday, February 1, 2019 at 11:36:13 AM UTC-5, Bill Horne wrote:
> A fiber-optic cable hut stopped working as a result of freezing
> conditions, disrupting the Internet connections and phone service
> across two local governments. Emergency services were not impacted.`
>
> By Laura Arwood
>
> (TNS) - The severe cold froze the internal systems of Madison County
> and the city of Anderson on Wednesday.
>
> Sometime between 6 and 7 a.m. Wednesday, a fiber-optic cable hut
> stopped working, causing the two governments' internal phones and
> Internet servers to crash, Madison County IT Director Lisa Cannon
> said.
>
>
http://www.govtech.com/network/Extreme-Cold-Freezes-Out-Internet-Phones-in-Madison-County-Ind.html
Time to break out the snow buggy! (What the Bell System did to
protect against winter in 1952)
https://books.google.com/books?id=QI9Wk5Z8vbwC&lpg=PA28&dq=boys%20life%20snow%20buggy&pg=PA28#v=onepage&q&f=false
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